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. TAIL PIECE FOR BANJOS 0 VIOLINS'.

No. 360,790. Patented Apr. 5, 1887.

WITJV'EISSES I INVENTOR UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALLEN G. \VOOD, OF UTICA, NEXV YORK.

TAIL-PIECE F OR BANJOS OR VIOLINS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.360,790, dated April 5, 1887.

Application filed August 5, 1886. Serial No. 210.106. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, ALLEN G. Wool), a citizen of the United States, residing at Utica, in the county of Oneida, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tail- Pieces for Banjos, Violins, 860., of which the following is a specification, reference being therein to the accompanying drawings. I

' stringsare looped or wound, and a series of retaining devices around which the strings are passed, whereby the strain of the strings is distributed between the fastening and retaining devices, as will more fully hereinafter appear.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a view in perspective of a banjo with my improved tail-piece secured thereto. Fig. 2 is a view in perspective of the tail-piece detached from the instrument, Fig. 3 is a modification.

A indicates a banjo or other instrument of like character provided with the usual number of strings and the ordinary tension devices, B, for regulating the pitch or tone of the strings.

O is the tail-piece, secured to the rear end of the instrument by means of the open link D and pin E, or in any other convenient manner. The plate 0, forming the tail-piece, is made of metal or'ot-her suitable material, and is provided with one or more headed standards or buttons, F, near its rear end, to which the rear ends of the stringsa are looped, tied, or wrapped in a suitable manner. The front end of the plate 0 is provided with a series of buttons or headed pins, G, around which each string is wrapped once and then led forward and secured to the tension devices B, by which the strings are drawn up to tune the instrument.

The headed standard or pin F serves to hold the rear ends of all the strings, as already in dicated, (or a series of these standards may be arranged nearthe rear end of the plate,) while the headed pins or buttons G serve to relieve or take a portion of the strain from off the v or knotted, while the front end of the plate is provided with a series of perforations, I, through which the strings are passed, as shown, and wrapped around the front end of the plate. By this arrangement should a string break another can be quickly put on, while at the same time there is nothing connected with the tailpiece which will in any way out the strings and cause them to break at this-end, as is the case with the tail-pieces now in general use.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. A tail-piece for banjos, violins, 820., consisting of a plate provided with a standard or button near its rear end, to which the strings are secured, and a series of buttons or headed studs near its front end, around which the strings are passed, as set forth.

2. In a tailpiece for banjos, violins, 850., the plate 0, provided with the standard F and buttons G, in combination with the strings a, and tension devices B, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALLEN G. YVOOD.

Witnesses:

H. H. TIMERMAN, W. E. W001). 

